Archive for June, 2010

A Curious Summer: Curious Cafe

Posted by bryan on Jun 28 2010 | events

A Curious Summer: Curious Cafe

June 28-July 2
ages 4 and up
Explore the hidden gardens, farms and wild foraging spots of San Francisco. Turning the storefront into a restaurant, we’ll create inventive meals and desserts inspired by the ingredients we find and serve them to family and friends. In daily excursions we’ll learn about where our food comes from, how it is grown and explore the culinary traditions of local and diverse communities. We’ll also explore our sense of taste and play tricks on our tongue by sampling miracle fruit.
 Special guests: Chefs Nicole LoBue and Leif Hedendal . Drop off/pick up at the Studio for Urban Projects.

A Curious Summer is a series of one-of-a-kind workshops driven by the curiosity of your child. We aim to induce wonder and spark enthusiasm for the everyday world around us. We consider play, the mysterious work of the child, to be an advanced and sophisticated endeavor, profoundly central to a child’s individual development and theories about the world. A Curious Summer workshops encourage discovery through free play, tinkering, and imagination.

Each week we will undertake a unique project. At the end of the week kids will share their experience with family and friends in a reception that showcases their discoveries.
On some weeks we will use the Studio for Urban Projects storefront as our home base, turning it into a laboratory and point of departure for urban excursions. Other weeks we will meet at locations around the city.

For more information about A Curious Summer, please visit acurious.org, contact us at info@acurious.org, or by phone at 415.627.7966.

A Curious Summer is conceived by Bryan Welch and Marina McDougall. Each week will be led by Bryan Welch along with special guests.

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A Curious Summer: Shelter

Posted by bryan on Jun 21 2010 | events

A Curious Summer: Shelter

June 21-25
ages 6 and up
Join us as we design shelters out of natural materials that keeps us warm and dry in different wild landscapes of San Francisco. We’ll start with a visit to an Ohlone hut in the heart of the Mission. Throughout the week we’ll gain inspiration and technique from different cultures around the world as we explore the relationship natural buildings have with their local ecology. We’ll enlist the help of architect and engineers, and master knot-tying and lashing. We’ll observe local wildlife, and see how they build their homes.
Drop off/pick up at locations around the city.

A Curious Summer is a series of one-of-a-kind workshops driven by the curiosity of your child. We aim to induce wonder and spark enthusiasm for the everyday world around us. We consider play, the mysterious work of the child, to be an advanced and sophisticated endeavor, profoundly central to a child’s individual development and theories about the world. A Curious Summer workshops encourage discovery through free play, tinkering, and imagination.

Each week we will undertake a unique project. At the end of the week kids will share their experience with family and friends in a reception that showcases their discoveries.
On some weeks we will use the Studio for Urban Projects storefront as our home base, turning it into a laboratory and point of departure for urban excursions. Other weeks we will meet at locations around the city.

For more information about A Curious Summer, please visit acurious.org, contact us at  info@acurious.org, or by phone at 415.627.7966.

A Curious Summer is conceived by Bryan Welch and Marina McDougall. Each week will be led by Bryan Welch along with special guests.

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A Curious Summer: Stitch

Posted by bryan on Jun 14 2010 | events

A Curious Summer: Stitch

June 14-18
ages 10 and up
During this week’s workshop we will imagine, design and construct a range of projects out of fabric. We’ll start with a studio full of sewing machines and piled high with textiles. We’ll be joined by tailors and designers who will guide us, inspire us and take us behind the scenes at factories and boutiques. We’ll see how making things out of cloth requires us to think like architects, painters, and sculptors. Deconstructing old clothes, we’ll see how they are made before turning them into something new.
 Drop off/pick up at the Studio for Urban Projects.

A Curious Summer is a series of one-of-a-kind workshops driven by the curiosity of your child. We aim to induce wonder and spark enthusiasm for the everyday world around us. We consider play, the mysterious work of the child, to be an advanced and sophisticated endeavor, profoundly central to a child’s individual development and theories about the world. A Curious Summer workshops encourage discovery through free play, tinkering, and imagination.

Each week we will undertake a unique project. At the end of the week kids will share their experience with family and friends in a reception that showcases their discoveries.
On some weeks we will use the Studio for Urban Projects storefront as our home base, turning it into a laboratory and point of departure for urban excursions. Other weeks we will meet at locations around the city.

For more information about A Curious Summer, please visit acurious.org, contact us at  info@acurious.org, or by phone at 415.627.7966.

A Curious Summer is conceived by Bryan Welch and Marina McDougall. Each week will be led by Bryan Welch along with special guests.

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The Self-Sufficient Kitchen, Fermentation Class

Posted by kirstin on Jun 05 2010 | events

The Self-Sufficient Kitchen, Fermentation Class

All classes meet from 1:00-5:00 pm at the Studio for Urban Projects 3579 17th Street.

Classes are $75. Please use the Paypal link below to register.

This ongoing series of classes will introduce you to the basics of traditional food preparation. In a time when we can often mistake “food products” for real food, this series of classes will ground students in the processes, recipes and nutritional benefits of cooking from scratch. As Michael Pollan writes in his book In Defense of Food: An Eaters Manifesto ”Don’€™t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’€™t recognize as food.”€ The self-sufficient kitchen will revisit traditional cooking techniques and reinterpret them in the context of the contemporary urban foodshed. We will examine the city as an agricultural site. The class will take short walking trips to local urban farms, backyard gardens, and foraging spots to visit local growers and harvest ingredients for the dishes we prepare.

Each class will be taught by Nicole LoBue. Nicole has been working in the food industry in New York and San Francisco since 1990. She studied the culinary arts and whole foods nutrition at the Anne Marie Colbins School of Food and Healing and the French Culinary Institute in NY. With a deep passion for food inspired by her Sicilian heritage and world travels, Chef Nicole Lobue spreads the love of everything delicious to others. A dedicated student of herbal medicine; Nicole firmly follows the political and aesthetic culinary principles regarding the faithful use of ingredients that are healthful both for consumers and the environment.

This class will cover the basics of fermentation. From sauerkraut to lacto-fermented sodas, the class will demonstrate techniques for making fermented foods a healthful part of your home pantry. Other foods the class will introduce include Kombutcha, Pickles, and Kimchee.

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